Improvement in clothes-line supporters



W. EATON.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORTER.

Patented. July 11, 1876.

N-PEFERS, FHOTO'UTNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D,

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UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

VVILLIAIWI'EATON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,650, dated July 11, 1876; application filed April 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM EATON, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improved Clothes-Line Winder and Protector-,which improvement is fully set forth in the annexed specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to form a clothes-line winder and protector which shall he an improvement on the clothes-line attachments at present in use.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents my improvement with the rope orline in position for hanging the clothes. Fig. 2 represents two clothes-posts with my improvement attached. Fig. 3 represents the box in which the clothesline is placed, detached from the post.

I use a box, A, (shown in Fig. 3,) of any proper material. The box A has a shaft, b,

. running through it, on which the clothes-line c is wound. The shaft b has a crank,f, attached to it, for turning the same. The line 0 is kept in position on theshaft 1) by means On the outside of the box A are a ratchetand pawl, (shown in Fig. 2,) for the purpose of slackening or tightening the line 0, as desired. This box A is attachedin a vertical position, and by any suitable appliances, to. one of the clothes-posts K. The'end of the line projects from the box A, and is formed into a loop or knot. On the same post to which the box A is attached, near its top, is fastened vertically a pulley, B, and there is also attached to the same post, at or near its top, a horizontal pulley, C. There are also attached, at or near the tops of the other posts K, horizontal pulleys O. The line is prevented from falling off the pulley O by means of pins or guards g.

In putting my line 0 inposition for hanging clothes, 1 proceed as follows: I unwind the line 0, which is wound on the shaft b of'the box A, and pass the line 0 first around the vertical pulley B, and then passit around the horizontal pulley O, and fasten the end of the line to the hook h. When the line 0 is taken down after being used, it'is wound on the shaft 1) by means of the crank f.

By this arrangement of the box A, containing the shaft 1) and cylinders 61 and d, and crankf, pulleys B and O, and posts K and line a, I make an improved clothes-line winder.

The pawl e and ratchet 6 allows the line to be tightened or slackened, as desired. If the line is left out, exposed to the weather, the

pawl e is left up out of gear with the ratchet e, and thus, when the line is contracted by damp weather or rain, it will draw out a portion of the line in the box A, and thus prevent the line 0 from breaking or from pulling down the posts K, or dragging them out of position.

My improvement can be attached to ordinary clothes-posts, and the pulleys can be stationary or detachable, as desired.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination of the box A and its attachments of shaft 1), crank f,-disks d and (1, pawl e, and ratchet 6, with the posts K, provided with the pulleys B and 0, book h, and pins or guards g, and line 0 In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 17th day of April, 1876.

WILLIAM EATON. WVitnesses:

LOUIS W. FRosT, CHARLES G. 00E. 

